I never like those 5 videos being my top ones. But anyways, here is a list of top videos from people that are no longer active (or as active as before) and are great videosifters

plastiquemonkey

http://www.videosift.com/video/stephen-colbert-swallows-a-banana-and-totally-loses-it

http://www.videosift.com/video/how-she-gets-to-look-that-beautiful

http://www.videosift.com/video/kevin-spacey-is-really-really-good-at-impressions

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Monty-Hall-Problem

http://www.videosift.com/video/the-middle-east-its-not-a-crisis-its-an-opportunity

mlx
http://www.videosift.com/video/This-commercial-will-blow-you-away

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Making-of-the-Shining-pts-1-4-by-Vivian-Kubrick

http://www.videosift.com/video/Johnny-Cash-Hurt-1

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Pale-Blue-Dot-by-Carl-Sagan-Excerpt-read-by-the-Author

http://www.videosift.com/video/White-Stripes-Icky-Thump

benjee
http://www.videosift.com/video/South-Park-Ms-Garrison-explains-Evolution

http://www.videosift.com/video/IBM-Powers-Of-Ten-amazing-9-minute-science-video

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Secret-Life-Of-Brian-Monty-Pythonreligion-documentary

http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-We-Fight-BBC-Storyville-US-war-machine-documentary

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Fog-of-War-11-Lessons-From-The-Life-Of-Robert-McNamara


nickyp
http://www.videosift.com/video/Bill-Hicks-on-dinosaurs

http://www.videosift.com/video/Peter-Bjorn-John-Young-Folks

http://www.videosift.com/video/LCD-Soundsystem-Tribulations

http://www.videosift.com/video/Portishead-All-Mine

http://www.videosift.com/video/Thou-Shalt-always-Kill-dan-le-sac-VS-scroobius-pip

gluonium
http://brain.videosift.com/video/Aluminum-boat-floats-on-nothing

http://brain.videosift.com/video/Quick-Science-Sift-8rapid-vaporization-of-cryogenic-liquid

http://brain.videosift.com/video/Quick-Science-Sift-14-Time-dilation-is-a-real-phenomenon

http://brain.videosift.com/video/What-NOT-to-do-with-metal-objects-and-MRI-machines-10s

http://brain.videosift.com/video/Mmmmmm-64-slices-of-American-cheese

>> ^bcglorf:

Thank you for your reply.

You made it clear that I may have made an error in my previous comment. I think I should clarify that what I meant by "personal transport" was light vehicles for personal uses, as is the minivan or motorcycle used to get to work, the store, not transportation in general, which I view as a different, though not unrelated, problem. Moving freight, airplanes and battleships requires different solutions (in my opinion) then the problem of getting your kids to the hockey game.

I think we agree that the transition from oil is an important issue. You seem to believe that better batteries (and electric engines) will solve every facet of every issue facing the end of oil, and that this will result in little or no social or political change or turmoil. While I deeply wish that the next century comes to be shaped after your expectations, I do not believe it will be so. I do not believe that batteries alone will solve the coming crisis. Even if energy storage technology was to rapidly become what we would need it to be, where would the energy come from if the source for more then half of our current use was to vanish? Replacing that energy by renewable means will require a huge amount of investment and several decades to implement.

What I see coming, is a myriad of interwoven problems of which the central spine is energy use. All of them are have energy use at the at the root of their problem. This is because oil has done more then just let people drive their cars around cheaply. Cities are no longer shaped after people's needs, but to suit the demands of the automobile. There has been a great deal of optimism in investing in electric cars to allow people to continue to access modern cities as they have been constructed.

"When people say that they want to go to the electric car, I love it! But remember, they say 'car' not 'truck.' A battery won't move an 18 wheeler. The only thing that will move an 18 wheeler is foreign oil, diesel and gasoline, and our domestic natural gas." -T. Boone Pickens (on The Daily Show)

However continuing to access these cities will get more difficult when costs of energy begin to come down from the bubble of cheapness that I and most of the people I know have grown up in.

"Consequently these (cities) will be places that nobody wants to be in. These will be places that are not worth caring about. We have about 38,000 places that are not worth caring about in the united states today, when we have enough of them we will have a nation that is not worth defending. -James Howard Kunstler on "The greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world."

Even if cities are reshaped for the new economy of energy, there is debate on what that will be. Some people believe that there will be a magic-pill cure, like super batteries that will allow life to continue as normal. This will not be the case.

"The central delusion that we're seeing right now is the idea that we can magically come up with a rescue remedy to continue running the interstate highway system and all the other accessories and furnishings of the happy motoring system. I happen to think that we're going to be very disappointed about that. In fact there are a lot of intelligent thigns we can do, but one of the least intelligent things we can expect is that we can continue happy motoring. You can demonstrate that you can run cars on hydrogen, cow shit and fried potato oil, but can run 230 million cars and trucks on it? Forget about it.

And then you get into political questions, like if driving becomes something only for the elite. Right now 4% of americans can't drive for one reason or another. What happens when that number becomes 13% or 27% of the people do you think that's going to be politically okay? It would create huge resentments and grievances against the people who can still do it." - James Howard Kunstler

But when I said that personal transportation is not the biggest issue, I meant it. People will be less concerned with their car or the "happy motoring system" if they are hungry.

"Food prices are rising and they're about to soar. There have been a lot of rising grain prices that have not been passed on to the consumer, they're about to be. High food prices always create political peril, as we've known since the French revolution at least.

The era of cheap food is over in this country, just as the era of cheap oil is over as well. (...) The old fix, ramping up production is not going to work this time, because cheap food depends on cheap energy, something we can no longer count on. Without reforming the American food system, it will be impossible to make progress on the issues of energy independence, climate change and the health care crisis because the way we feed ourselves is that the heart of all those three problems.

Let me explain. The food system, uses more fossil fuel and contributes more greenhouse gas to the atmosphere then any other industry. Between 17 and 34 percent. Meat production alone is 18 percent." -Michael Pollan, on The End of Cheap Food.

So when faced with the choice between fuel for their cars and fuel for their bodies, some will choose to fuel the car, leaving others to go hungry. And when people are hungry, they turn to first to the government for solutions. Governments know that they will need to bring resources to appease a population and avoid that political peril they have known about since the French Revolution. Remember that wars are always about resources.

"How curious, that the First World War is never taught in our schools as an invasion of Iraq. (...A reaction to) the Berlin-Bagdad railway, which commenced construction in the years leading up to the first world war," with the goal of bringing oil from Iraq to Germany. (-Robert Newman, A History of Oil)

"Oil is what drives the military machine of every country. It provides the fuel for aircraft, the ships the tanks for the trucks. The control of oil is indespensible. When you run out if your army stops." -Chalmers Johnson, Why we fight.

Oil is more then just a transportation issue. Riding the bus won't help much. The bus runs on gasoline, just like your car.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'iraq, us, shah, iran, gulf, chalmers johnson' to 'iraq, us, shah, iran, gulf, chalmers johnson, why we fight' - edited by kronosposeidon

I'm been a media student as well. The media should represent the people. that's why "the people have a right to know".

the government, such as you Ms. Palin, do not "have a right to tell". That's why we fight for "freedom of the press" in dictatorships.

But in some ways she's right.

The Media should have been allowed to objectively tell us that she had temper tantrums and unlike most 10 yr olds, didn't know Africa was a continent.

... rather than gagging them and not letting them report what you didn't like them saying.

The Media is not your mouth piece - it's the ears and the eyes of the people to keep you in check.

IMHO, the best 9/11 documentary:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-We-Fight-BBC-Storyville-US-war-machine-documentary

sorry, this is a dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Why-We-Fight-BBC-Storyville-US-war-machine-documentary

*discard

Why shouldn't they enter a war with whomever they wish, including us? They're just following the same money-making tactics the U.S. has employed since Eisenhower stepped down.

Oh yeah, that's right. Because it's wrong. There are other ways to increase your sovereignty and make worship to the true god of this world, if that's your true goal.

161 more days. Let's just hope he doesn't do something incredibly stupid in that time. Given his track record, I'm not holding my breath.

Neo-Con == Neo-Fascist.

I for one applaud QM's presence and commentary.
He reminds us of Why We Fight against the Bush / Cheney / Rumsfeld / Wolfowitz neo-con One World police state.

Please do watch the Neo-Con ideal: "Triumph of the Will"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80lLU5-yji8
*shudder*

I understand your concern coolhund, understadn "Why We Fight" is no Alex Jones production.
Read up - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight_(2005_film)

Yep IMSabbel is right. The US fucking things up again.

Watch this, "Why We Fight": http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3405669348838274375

(was on VS a few days ago)

I finally got around to watching Why We Fight today. It helped to solidify my conviction that making and viewing war porn has ethical equivalence with the acts it portrays.

edit: Oops, and here I am breaking my rule only days ago.

>> ^choggie:
No.
this blame-game shit is getting old, especially when you don't look in a mirror and point that finger at yourselves-


ok...your right choggie, I apologize.
I am looking the mirror, I am looking at myself and for some reason I still don't think I am responsible for invading all those countries, what am I missing here?

I agree with briktop. It's in the very contract everyone of us signed. As for recruiters leaving out some details. Of course they are. If you were selling a house or a car or anything else are you going to tell them about all of the bad things about it. NO! You are going to make it look great. That doesn't mean they are lying. I'm a recruiter. I truly love being a soldier and I talk the military, especially the National Guard, up to any potential soldier. I want them to know about all the great benefits it offers. But I will not lie to them. If they ask any questions about stoploss or deployments or anything else "contriversial", I will do my best to fully explain everything to them. Everyone should be proud to serve the country, and extremely honored that their country has stoplossed them because we want them fighting the fight for us. I've been overseas twice. Volunteered for the second deployment, and as I was typing this comment, volunteered for my third. Stoploss keeps us from implementing the draft and sending young, untrained soldiers. I'll tell you the samething I tell everyone else, I would rather be sent overseas 100 times before I would want any of my family to have to go. But I still encourage both of my brothers to serve their country when their time comes. You should have never joined the military if you are too scared to fight for what you and your family have and what you believe in. Everyone wants all of the glory and benefits of being an American but very few want to fight and protect what we have so we can have the samethings for our children and their children. For all of you who run from recruiters and protest soldiers, you should be ashamed of yourselves. I'm not saying you should agree with the war. That's your opinion, and that's why we fight for you rights. But you should still support all troops whether you agree with the war or not. A lot of us don't agree with the war, but we answer the call of our nation, man up, and do what we have to do so that you don't have to.

SGT David Booth
Proud soldier of the 45th Infantry Brigade and the Oklahoma Army National Guard.

You should watch the documentary: "Why We Fight". Oh also.. you disagree with many of Ron Paul's principles? When I see peeps writing this kind of rhetoric, it makes me think that you are essentially stating that you disagree with the most important aspects of his principles:

-Proper checks and balances within our government,
-A solid monetary system (of which several presidents have fought for like Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and what JFK vowed 4 months before he was killed)
-No watch lists of Constitutional supporters listed as potential terrorists if the Constitution (which many of us have taken an oath to defend when we joined the US Military or Police force) is threatened.

also,
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

Anyone would be a fool not to want a man like this as the president. Plus he's not a CFR member. Rockefeller - founder of the CFR stated in his own book "Memoirs" on page 405 that he was working in a cabal towards a New World Order. Maybe this is something you welcome, but I will never vote for a CFR member presidential candidate such as Obama, Clinton or McCain. McCain is not a friend of America.. he's a puppet candidate and this is why the GOP selected him... this is why half of Americans haven't even heard of Ron Paul... The media is suppressing his campain. Now... get out there and vote for your little CFR candidate and pat yourself on the back when our national sovereignty is ripped to shreds. Congrats.

Thanks! Will make sure to check out part 2 of this talk.
Have seen "Why we fight" previously, but there's something off-putting about movies like that in my mind. Or rather, atleast this is how it seems to me, they're not interested in educating the viewer as much as they're trying to force a view on him/her with the use of music, imagery and selective information and statistics, all taken out of context.
This kind of talk however is nice, not only because he seems to try to give a context for his views (giving the facts he builds his views on, and not giving the views he builds his facts on like in some documentaries) but also because I don't perceive him as condescending or arrogant, which makes it easier to try and objectively think about what he says.
Because after all, changing someone's mind about something is never about beating them over the head with information and facts. If anything, it'll make them refuse it as people tend to hold on to what they have in face of adversity. It's just human nature, just like how people who see a documentary of the kind I mentioned earlier, and agree with it, will most likely praise it beyond reason.